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TIL of Mark Twitchell, a filmmaker who, inspired by the series Dexter, tried to become a serial killer by catfishing men online, kidnapping, and killing them. H...

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TIL Florida is the only state with a ‘free kill’ law: if patient 25 or over dies due to medical malpractice, only a spouse or child under the age of 25 can sue ...

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r/todayilearned - TIL Leon Trotsky once had hot soup spilled over him at his favorite restaurant because he considered tipping "demeaning to the dignity of...

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TIL that champignon mushrooms were originally all light brown in color. The white variety goes back to a chance mutation in 1925 when a white mushroom was disco...

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TIL that it's unclear from where Nation of Islam founder Wallace Fard Muhammad originated. While the NOI holds that Fard was Arabic, some evidence indicates he ...

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TIL in 2009 PETA's European branch asked the British synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys to rename themselves "Rescue Shelter Boys".

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TIL in the "Jessie's Song" episode of Saved By The Bell, Jessie was originally supposed to be addicted to speed instead of caffeine pills but NBC vetoed it, say...

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TIL that the Navajo Reservation was under a 43 year development ban until 2009 - preventing things like fixing roofs, building houses, and installing gas and wa...

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TIL the Honjo Masamune, considered one of the finest Japanese swords ever made, was taken by US forces after WW2 and never seen again

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TIL Richard Nixon had an enemies list. The official purpose, as described by the White House Counsel's Office, was to "screw" Nixon's political enemies, by mean...

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TIL Japan has a long-running internet meme about “The Gunma Empire,” (グンマー帝国) which treats one of its rural prefectures Gunma (essentially the West Virginia of ...

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TIL that in 1968, Richard Nixon feared that there would be a breakthrough in the Paris Peace Talks between North and South Vietnam, resulting in the war ending ...

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TIL Wham-O filed a lawsuit over a scene in "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" in which David Spade uses a Slip 'N Slide without water, later coats it with oil,...

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TIL that the Babylonian Talmud contains an argument between 1st-2nd century rabbis about whether the "plague of frogs" in the book of Exodus was actually just o...

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TIL that DJ Mustard's given name is Dijon

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TIL The proper translation of the original Japanese for the phrase "All your base are belong to us" in Zero Wing should have been "With the help of Federation g...

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r/todayilearned - TIL that unlike what,s shown in the movies, when a person dies with their eyes open, pressing the eyelids closed usually won’t keep them shut ...

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TIL The world's longest manned flight was 64 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes

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TIL In the 2001 Masters tournament, snooker player Paul Hunter was down 6-2. His manager instructed him to use "Plan B" and afterwards Hunter came from behind t...

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TIL in 2006, Emerson Electric filed suit against NBC after the pilot episode of Heroes featured Claire Bennet reaching into an active garbage disposal and injur...

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